reform school

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The actor stars alongside Tracey Ullman and Emily Watson in a film that follows the weary employees and difficult students of an English reform school.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 14, 2025

Among them is Steve, the headteacher of a reform school in 1996, battling the emotions and behaviour of the teenage boys living there as well as his own personal demons.

From BBC • Sep. 19, 2025

Certainly, there could have been a more straightforward adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s acclaimed novel about the friendship between two Black boys at a brutal Florida reform school in the early 1960s.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2024

Keep in mind I had worked in a reform school for girls!

From Slate • Apr. 4, 2024

He came out of reform school as innocent of viciousness as he was of fractions and long division.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck